I’ve been award $7,000 Provost scholarship, $2,500 SICE scholarships, and I’m waiting to hear on Hutton Honors college scholarship(they said they average between $2-3k). On the other hand, Purdue will be the full in-state cost of tuition for cs.
I like the campus of IU better but I have lived in btown my whole life. Part of me wants to leave but the money is good at IU.
I’ve also heard that Purdue is artificially hard for computer science, and I do not want to be weeded out of the computer science program.
Are you really asking if you should go to Purdon’t on an IU board?
I think the real question is do you want to stay in Btown? Will it be “too close” to home? Will that take away from your college experience? Either way, you have good options. Good luck.
There is truth in the ‘artificially hard’ part of Purdue CS. It is great if you have notions of grad school and want to go further like grad school and such. Probably better recruitment opportunities too. But Purdue is not as generous as IU in this sense. Use the money and opportunities for things like internships, study abroad, learn a foreign language, or focus on some interesting part of CS.
CS is a lot about what you learn that can be of use to employers, too. If Purdue spends a lot of time teaching stuff that employers don’t care about (but are useful in the long term for grad school) that’s another thing to consider.
Purdue is better at some things, IU is better at other things (particularly programming languages). Both universities have some rockstar professors.
Douglas Hofstadter and Daniel Freedman come to mind for IU. There’s also a history of good logic happening here (Raymond Smullyan).
